Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Ch..., Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Ch..., Ransom Riggs
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Author: Ransom Riggs

Narrator: Jesse Bernstein

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A mysterious island.

An abandoned orphanage.

A strange collection of very curious photographs.

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that makes for a thrilling listening experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

Includes a bonus PDF of photographs and letters from the book

About The Author

Ransom Riggs is a resident of Los Angeles where the author writes books and makes movies.


Reviews

When I was a child, one of my favourite things to do was to look through pictures in books - children's picture books, colouring books, etc. - and tell stories in my mind with them. For example, a picture of two children holding hands would start this story of friendship, which would then grow with......more

Goodreads review by Rick

This book has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention for the way it incorporates unusual antique photographs into the narrative. The premise: Jacob grew up on his grandfather’s stories about his own childhood during World War II. Supposedly his grandfather escaped the Holocaust by taking refu......more

Goodreads review by Zoë

Edit on January 9th, 2016: I haven't thought about this book since I read it in July and I really have no interest anymore in reading the rest of the series. ---------- It definitely was a slow moving book, but the plot really held my attention and I loved the use of the pictures. Sometimes I felt li......more